OH NO WE HAVEN'T !!! WE HAVE GOT PIRES, NOT TORRES, ha ha  (priceless)

-- Edited by Patsy on Tuesday 1st of February 2011 05:13:28 PM

It's absolutely astonishing that Chelsea, who are currently operating at a loss each year can spend that amount acquiring players. Not only that but fans of these teams lap it up and also seem to lose touch with a bit of reality over the sort of money being spent and paid to these players.
Platini has been talking about preventing teams who operate at at least 5 million loss a year from taking part in UEFA competitions. I think an even better idea would be implementing something we're all familiar with.......TRANSFER EMBARGO!!!

I was listening to my car radio about a chap in the good old USA.  Not sure if he was a netball or rounders player. Anyway he is injured and had a choice of getting his injury fixed and be off playing for most of the season. Or not get the injury fixed and  playing sub standard for the rest of the season. In either case he would be on his full wage of 12 million dollars. The bloke stunned everyone by saying he wanted out, said it would be unfair to draw such a pay packet for virtually s@# all. Admittedly he has earnt 40 million dollars over the past few years so he is not short of a few bob.
Could anyone imagine the same situation arising in the Premiership or even league 2 in this country?

-- Edited by Squarevanman on Tuesday 1st of February 2011 07:43:16 PM

The Premier League has been boring since its inception in 1993.

Only 4 teams have won the premiership with Man United winning it 11 times out of 18. Arsenal and Chelsea 3 each and Blackburn 1.

The rich get richer and the poor get brown stuff over them.

We could take a leaf out of the Australian Rules Football book. They imposed a salary cap called the Total Player Payments (TPP). It enforces a maximum wage bill for all clubs.

It means you can buy the best player in the world and pay him a fantastic wage but it would leave you with less money to pay the rest of the squad. 

The vast majority of successful Aussie Rules teams were in Victoria but since the TPP it's now spread throughout the country. 

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I was listening to my car radio about a chap in the good old USA.  Not sure if he was a netball or rounders player. Anyway he is injured and had a choice of getting his injury fixed and be off playing for most of the season. Or not get the injury fixed and  playing sub standard for the rest of the season. In either case he would be on his full wage of 12 million dollars. The bloke stunned everyone by saying he wanted out, said it would be unfair to draw such a pay packet for virtually s@# all. Admittedly he has earnt 40 million dollars over the past few years so he is not short of a few bob.
Could anyone imagine the same situation arising in the Premiership or even league 2 in this country?

-- Edited by Squarevanman on Tuesday 1st of February 2011 07:43:16 PM

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Great bit of info vanman ... bit that made me laugh though is a netball or rounders player if they are on that money we may as well all give up now i think you will find it is Basketball or Baseball .... just some friendly banter and you made me smile!

 

Forgot to add . Totally agree wit Alan S post.

See, there's two sides to how things should be done...

On one, you have Abramovich. Yes he's bought several star players and yes, he's told managers who to play in the past (Shevchenko and I'd imagine, to a degree, Torres), but apparently he has cleared the clubs debt, meaning if he bailed, Chelsea wouls still be able to function because they would be room for them to get into debt again (I'm not a money-minded man, but it's a twisted logic). Plus, it's his money and he'll never spend it all in his lifetime.

On the other, you have the Shiekhs at Man City, who, to the best of my knowedlge, have come in, spent loads on player and facilties...But still have the club's debt. now, with this in mind, if they bailed, City are in dire straits...how can they pay wages? Rent? It's set up a bit 'Pompeiii' and could fall like it too.

These losses though are a disgrace. Chelsea lost as much as they paid out for Torres and Luiz...Regardless of who would handle money here, just a smidge of that would help us out.

That Aussie Rule idea sounds good Alan, unfortunately with the power the PL hold, it wouldn't be enforced. The PL is danger of becoming what Rugby Union used to be of old: I do think soon that the idea of a 'closed' league will be mooted, not offcially, but with so many guidelines, those from the Champioship would ever get a look in.

And regardless of it's popularity around the world chelwing, it's a personal thing with people. I don't watch it because of the money, because I can't relate to players and because...Well, I find it boring a lot of the time.

We have had a player do this before. Ian Cousins suffered a bad injury that would keep him out for months, he was contracted and could have took the money but apparently he "ripped up the contract".